Whether stories are exaggerated or not, atrocity allegations must be met with zero tolerance from the Iraqi government.
But of course these things aren't atrocities when we do them.
"We will not allow atrocities," Mr. Abed Rabbo said.
For a start, Mr Taylor is being tried not for atrocities that occurred in his homeland, Liberia, but in neighbouring Sierra Leone.
Some of the testimony at the Winter Soldier Investigation was later discredited, and Mr. Kerry has since said he did not witness atrocities.
Serbia has long argued that civilians in Kosovo were fleeing the bombing, not the atrocities that the men on trial in The Hague stood accused of ordering.
As more aid arrives, however, more gunmen will seek to make a living by stealing it.Although the government is the chief culprit, not all atrocities in Darfur are carried out at its behest.
The 20-year-old says Isis has been subjected to a "media frenzy", insisting militants are not committing atrocities in Syria as bad as the US-led coalition, which has been bombing positions in the country for the past 18 months.
Granted, the two rebel groups there the SLA and the Justice and Equality Movement have not committed atrocities on anything like the scale of those perpetrated by the Sudanese government and its janjaweed allies.
"There would be tens of thousands of American troops in Iraq right now and many others would have died if Bradley Manning had not revealed atrocities," he said.
